An algorithmic paradigm or algorithm design paradigm is a generic model or framework which underlies the design of a class of algorithms. An algorithmic paradigm is an abstraction higher than the notion of an algorithm, just as an algorithm is an abstraction higher than a computer program.12
List of well-known paradigms
General
- Backtracking
- Branch and bound
- Brute-force search
- Divide and conquer
- Dynamic programming
- Greedy algorithm
- Recursion
- Prune and search